He's dead to me. I switch rapidly between hoping his zombifying body dies ASAP, and missing the person he was before Nazis brainwashed and stole him.
He was a shitty friend who gatekept random things, like listening to bands in his mid-twenties. Much due to toxic masculinity. I found him quite cringey. Now he's a Nazi.
Yet I mourn his cringe ass each day. A whole person was lost to Nazis. I'm cycling, and I need new outlooks on this situation to get out of this rut. My self care is suffering.
I've almost lost quite a few of my close friends to the cult. There was two only-online people in my friend group who were open fascists and white supremacists. I stuck along mainly because I could at least fight back their idiotic political beliefs as the only (baby) leftist. Luckily, my friends seemed to only want to interact with the cult due to immaturity and wanting some sort of political ideology.
When one only-online friend went on a rant involving his hatred of Jews and black people right in the middle of the Black Lives Matter protests I left the Discord server where everyone was. Another real life friend did as well, and we ended up abandoning the server over time, and deleted the server just a little bit ago. Everyone now is just jaded about working, poverty, and cost of living, no extremists. People can change for the better, as it turns out.